Project NEMESIS

I got a weird idea today, so I followed through and come up with this little One-Roll gizmo that generates NPC descriptions. There's no stats or anything, just a short list of quirky things that you can mention when designing a random guy to talk with the party. A little explanation, then I'll post the stuff.

I've been thinking about Wild Talents, and come to the conclusion that I don't like hard dice much. They seem a bit too cheap for their usefulness, and the fact that they always hit the head doesn't really match up with the idea of uncontrolled power. Neither of the alternatives in the book interested me much, either. Rather than just
fret about it, I came up with a couple of alternatives, and I'd like to hear people's opinions of them.

Not every member of Delta Green is comfortable acting outside the law, waging an illegal war without end. There is a cell of agents (henceforth referred to as `M-Cell`) who intend to gain sanction by Congress and the Joint Chiefs of Staff, acting outside the designs of A-Cell. They hope, with enough evidence, to present an unassailable case to Congress to officially reinstate Delta Green. This conspiracy within Delta Green has slowly compiled considerable documentation with which to present their case.

Delta Green faces a host of enemies, human and otherwise. Some of those that cross the organization might have good intentions, but, as they say about the road to Hell…

To continue the trend of scenarios about silencing former DG agents and friendlies, I present my homage/ripoff of the movie Burn After Reading. I've taken the basic setup of the movie and then veered off into DG terrtiory so the players can participate. I've also left out George Clooney's character because he isn't necessary to get the ball rolling. This scenario is set in Washington DC.

Annabelle Gillick, a one-time Delta Green `friendly', is becoming a danger to the people around her. Gillick, a psychic, was assisting a Delta Green agent just over two years ago when her sensitive mind was exposed to alien emanations projected by an otherworldly entity. This drove her mad and until recently she has been in a catatonic state, waging and slowly losing an internal war with the nightmare impulses that have infected her. Her control is slipping, and her damaged mind is projecting echoes of the creature's terrible consciousness to those around her – to caustic effect. Enter the player-characters; A-Cell just learned about Gillick, and are concerned she is a security threat.